By nicholson-1 on

Hello,

I'm doing some research and trying to find out which platform (Joomla or Drupal) is better for the following project.

The project consists of a main company that has four sub companies. Three of the sub companies will be selling products online using an e-commerce store.

The following domains are only use for example:

Main Site -> Business.com
Site 1 -> BusinessFoods.com -> E-commerce
Site 2 -> BusinessTruckParts.com -> E-commerce
Site 3 -> BusinessMinerals.com -> E-commerce
Site 4 -> BusinessProjects.com

Currently, only the main site of the project is registered.

Questions:
1. Is it better to just subdomains for each of the the divisions (Site 1 to 4) or have each site have its own domain name?
2. Drupal works good with paypal plugins and e-commerce?
3. Drupal has multi site support ?
4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using Drupal for a site like this?

Thanks in advance.

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WorldFallz commented

Drupal does have extensive ecommerce support with the http://drupal.org/project/ubercart and http://drupal.org/project/ecommerce modules. Drupal also has multisite support (core), as well as support for subdomains (contributed modules).

Frankly, having used both joomla (for one site only though) and drupal I can't imagine you being able to do this with anything but drupal.

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mshepherd commented

Hi,
Drupal is certainly capable of handling e-commerce, using either the e-commerce module or ubercart (maybe more?). They both have paypal payment facility and very capable modules. To answer your question:

  1. Whether you use sub-domains or have each site with it's own domain name, Drupal's multi-site setup (which is easy to manage) will treat each site separately. I'd go for multiple domain names.
  2. Yes, see above. Ubercart and e-commerce are great modules and both will support paypal
  3. Yes.
  4. Can't comment on this. I never got beyong the basics of Joomla before I decided that Drupal was better!

    5. Matt

mshepherd’s picture

mshepherd commented

Yes, never used the subdomains module... Also a possibility

nicholson-1’s picture

nicholson-1 commented

What would be a reasonable price for a project like this?

Will it be more efficient to have an e-commerce store for each dision since the products are very different. Or have a single e-commerce store for all the divisions?

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nonprofit commented

Hey nicholson, Yes, Drupal is up to the challenge.

>What would be a reasonable price for a project like this?

Please see my reply here.

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bwv commented

Here's how I would do this:

Business.com --> root where all modules are stored

Site 1 -> Foods.Business.com -> E-commerce
Site 2 -> Truckparts.Business.com -> E-commerce
Site 3 -> Minerals.Business.com -> E-commerce
Site 4 -> Project.Business.com

Each of the three subdomains will have its own unique ecommerce site, with a unique look and feel, running off of a single Ubercart installation in root (sites/all/modules/ubercart). The fourth can be anything you wish.

Reasonable price to set up the infrastructure so you can add content? I have sent you an email via your contact form.
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